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A review by futuregazer
Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan
2.0
Old fogey living in the past time travels into the distant future, when he could have jumped forward more easily by stepping into the present day.
Okay, so it's not as simple as that, but the character of Ellis Rogers felt extraordinarily dated and one-note. The fact that he is an old man who grew up long ago is a part of that, but as a 30 year old; the nostalgia that's thrown in doesn't really appeal to me, and though some people still grapple with the issues Ellis grapples with (how to be accepting of children who are different, the march of technology, the loneliness of some old social norms and conventions), they are things that I would like to see more fully fleshed out, through a more complex character, if we do need to explore them again in an old context, rather than a modern one.
Okay, so it's not as simple as that, but the character of Ellis Rogers felt extraordinarily dated and one-note. The fact that he is an old man who grew up long ago is a part of that, but as a 30 year old; the nostalgia that's thrown in doesn't really appeal to me, and though some people still grapple with the issues Ellis grapples with (how to be accepting of children who are different, the march of technology, the loneliness of some old social norms and conventions), they are things that I would like to see more fully fleshed out, through a more complex character, if we do need to explore them again in an old context, rather than a modern one.